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Luxury loyalty perks can't beat value
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More than seven out of ten luxury consumers in the US are participating in some kind of loyalty programme – but not usually those offered by luxury brands, according to a Luxury Institute survey of wealthy shoppers earning US$150,000+ per year. Overall …

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Bay Area home values up 28 percent, luxury home prices leap 11 percent
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This home at 3800 Washington St. in the Presidio Heights neighborhood of San Francisco is on the market for $21 million. It has eight bedrooms, seven bathrooms and 17,895 square feet. Prices for homes above $1 million grew by 11 percent during the past …

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Buyer of Corus Assets Wins Big
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He added that the deal isn't typical for Winthrop, which is best known for buying distressed real estate, renovating it and selling it for a profit, rather than buying fully leased luxury apartment buildings. The markets where Winthrop bought the …

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Chelsea Residents Prefer Prisons to More Luxury Condos
observer.com

The state has yet to market the Art Deco building, which was a single-occupancy residence before it became a prison in 1974, but in there's a high probability that luxury housing is in the cards. After all, real estate developers' voracious appetite …

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High-End Retailers Struggling to Ring the Register
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In the wake of economic slowdowns, we have seen retailers offering discounted goods for cost-conscious consumers. But despite the stock market becoming more robust and real estate markets coming back, high–end retailers and product companies are not …

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With a $40 million asking price, West Michigan has a new champion of high-end …
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SAUGATUCK, MI – With a $40 million asking price, there's a new champion of high–end real estate listings in West Michigan. The new champ is one of the former contenders — plus 300 more acres of beach property on Lake Michigan. It's the Lake Michigan …

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Long Island luxury home prices rising three times faster than overall market
www.newsday.com

The price increase comes along with a nearly 14 percent dip in inventory in the luxury real estate market. There have also been more luxury sales in the first half of this year — 527 sales, up 15 percent from 458 sales over the same period in 2012.

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'No quick fixes' as JC Penney posts big 2Q loss
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CEO Mike Ullman was rehired in April to bring back frequent sales and basic merchandise that were eliminated by Johnson in a failed attempt to attract hipper, more affluent customers. Johnson … Analysts worry that a turnaround at the Plano, Texas …

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Gold iPhone Could Help Apple Build Its Fortune in China
www.eweek.com

12 that according to sources in Asia, the Apple iPhone 5C—the lower-end version of two new iPhones expected to be introduced in coming weeks—will come in a "champagne gold" hue. While Apple rumors tend to rise and disappear with the pace of the …

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